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Monitoring aid: Lessons from a natural resources programme in Tanzania

U4 Practice Insight | Jul 2009

This Practice Insight describes the Norwegian Embassy’s decision in 2006 to independently evaluate their long-term support to the Management of ...

practice insight, nrm, natural resource management, monitoring aid, corruption in aid, , tanzania

Commitment, control and interest: A case study in operationalising ownership

U4 Practice Insight | Sep 2009

How can donors promote national ownership in the projects and programmes they fund? How do national counterparts regard ownership? How to translate principles ...

private sector, practice insight, serbia

The campaign to promote the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Insights into advocacy on the African continent

U4 Practice Insight | May 2013

This U4 Practice Insight seeks to communicate the experiences and lessons learned by a governance specialist during three years of advocacy work to promote ...

conventions, South Africa

A Hawk in Dove’s Feathers: Colombian Civil-Military Relations Under Santos

CMI Insight | Feb 2015

Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight reviews ...

Civil-Military Relations, Colombia

From Paris to the anti-corruption project: Examining the feasibility of ownership

U4 Practice Insight | Jan 2010

This Practice Insight summarises lessons learned from four case studies conducted to examine what bearing the notion of ownership has on anti-corruption ...

private sector

Lessons learned from the evaluation of five Council of Europe projects

U4 Practice Insight | Feb 2011

How successful are donor supported anti-corruption reforms? In this Practice Insight, the author takes a look at the evaluation of five large-scale ...

corruption in aid

Reforming the personal income tax system in Angola: An alternative proposal

CMI Insight | Jun 2014

Reforming the personal income tax legislation in Angola has been under preparation since 2011. There are many challenges related to creating an effective ...

Angola

See you in court! Holding the military to account in Latin America

CMI Insight | Feb 2016

The courtroom has become an increasingly common meeting place for retired military officials, and victims and their families who have suffered various ...

Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Chile

Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014

CMI Insight | Sep 2014

Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...

Revolution, Arab spring, sexual assault, Egypt

Military trials in Egypt: 2011-2014

CMI Insight | Dec 2014

The use of military tribunals to try civilians was one of the issues that made people rise against then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. This ...

military tribunals, Egypt

Local to Global Protection in Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, South Sudan and Zimbabwe

News | 7 Feb 2012

The study provides an important insight, food for thought and further discussion on the Responsibility to Protect and the limitations of UN Missions.

Sudan

Fifty years since the military coup: Taking stock of Brazilian democracy

CMI Insight | Sep 2014

In 1964, a military dictatorship that would last for 21 years was installed in Brazil. After a relatively smooth transition to democracy in 1985, Brazil ...

military, dictatorship, transition to democracy, Brazil

Gender parity in Senegal – A continuing struggle

CMI Insight | May 2017

In 2010, the Senegalese women’s movement, supported by political elites and international norms, managed to push for the adoption of one of the ...

women's movement, marabout, religion, Senegal

The eternal conflict: Land, peasants, and the military in Mexico

CMI Insight | May 2015

Land has always been an important site of struggle in Mexico, often bringing peasant movements and peasant communities into conflicts with the Mexican ...

Mexico

NGOs and corruption in post-war reconstruction: The case of Bosnia's refugee return

U4 Practice Insight | Feb 2011

In this Practice Insight, the author discusses post-war corruption challenges based on the reconstruction effort and return of refugees in Bosnia and ...

corruption in aid, , Bosnia, Herzegovina

Roots of fragmentation: The army and regime survival in Syria

CMI Insight | Apr 2014

The Syrian army did not turn on the regime in the face of popular protests, contrary to its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts. Yet, the Syrian army lost ...

Syria

The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change

CMI Insight | Apr 2016

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular ...

Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces, Arab Spring, Military

Zambia’s looming debt crisis – is China to blame?

CMI Insight | Jun 2019

Is China pressuring poor countries with debt? Debt trap diplomacy is a recent term that is used to describe Chinese loans for infrastructure and development ...

Zambia, China

The anatomy of a failed anti corruption project: A case study from Nepal

U4 Practice Insight | Sep 2009

In 2004 and 2005, the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI) implemented the first anti‑corruption project involving ...

private sector, nepal

Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?

CMI Insight | Nov 2014

Lebanon is straining under the fallout from the Syrian civil war amidst catering for one million refugees. Can the Lebanese Armed Forces contain the crisis ...

Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), civil-military relations, deeply-divided societies, multi-confessional armies, Lebanon, Syria